Edvard Munch Short Quotes

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There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce

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You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

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Without this anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

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My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?.. my art gives meaning to my life.

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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

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By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.

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Nature is not only what is visible to the eye—it also shows the inner images of the soul—the images on the reverse side of the eyes.

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I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic. Then people would see!

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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

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